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This type of reptile includes over 160 species which live across the Madagascar, Spain, Africa Portugal, and the United States.
*Chameleons are found in Africa, Asia, and Europe, but most live in Madagascar and Africa.
*The rest are found in the Middle East, a few on islands in the Indian Ocean, and one, the Indian chameleon, in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
*The common chameleon, is native to Spain, Portugal, the islands in the Mediterranean Sea, and the Near East.Introduced, non-native populations are found in Hawaii and Florida.
*Chameleons live in a variety of habitats, from rainforests and lowlands to deserts, semi-deserts, scrub savannas, and even mountains.
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator
where the sun may shine directly overhead
Due to the overhead sun, the tropics receive the most solar energy over the course of the year
and consequently have the highest temperatures on the planet.
The tropics maintain wide diversity of local climates
such as rain forests, monsoons, savannahs, deserts, and high altitude snow-capped mountains.
The word "tropical" can specifically refer to certain kinds of weather
rather than to the geographic region
*The typical chameleons from the subfamily Chamaeleoninae are arboreal, (usually living in trees or bushes)
*A few species are partially or largely terrestrial.
*Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land.
*Namaqua chameleons live in Africa’s Namib Desert, where they dig holes in sand dunes to escape the extreme heat and cold.
*Sail-fin chameleons inhabit the montane forests of Cameroon, in West Africa, where mountains rise to cloud level and are shrouded in fog; it is a cool, wet, dripping place of little sun.
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African continent map:Bigfrog, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons
Tropics & Subtropics map:KVDP, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chameleon in the Trees:Veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) by Herman Pijpers on Flikris liscensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bottom Row:Left to Right
Chameleon In The Flowers:Happy Chameleon May 3, 2017 by JamesInOregon on Flikr is liscensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Forest Trees:John Atherton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Colorless Chameleon:ThirdLittleFive by Wolfram Eberius on Flickr is liscensed under CC BY-ND 2.0
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